DraftTouchEventsCG

NOTE: the Web Events Working Group closed in November 2013 because it completed its technical work with the publication of the 10 October 2013 Touch Events Recommendation. As such, this document is NO longer maintained.

NOTE: the Touch Events Community Group proposed in this document has now been created. See http://www.w3.org/community/touchevents/.

This is Draft of the three pieces of information that is needed when the proposed Touch Events Coordination Group is created.

If you have write access to this document, feel free to update it; otherwise, please send comments to public-webevents@w3.org.

CG Name

Proposal: Touch Events i.e. "Touch Events Community Group"

Group Description

The Touch Events community group was formed by members of the Web Events Working Group (responsible for the Touch Events specification) and the Pointer Events Working Group (responsible for the Pointer Events spec). The group's focus is to determine differences in touch event behavior between browsers. The group seeks to form consensus on the best approaches for interoperability outside of what's already standardized.

Among the topics in scope for this group:

• Defining how touch-action should be implemented in browsers that support touch events; see [1].

• Defining the "right" TouchEvent / PointerEvent interaction for both browsers and pointer event polyfills; see [2].

• Trying to form consensus on how exactly browsers should behave in sending touch events when scrolling starts (f.ex. see the following public-webevents thread [3]).

• Identifying other differences that exist between these events.

• Discussing problems web/framework developers have with the design of touch events; see [4].

• Define "mappings" between Touch Events and Pointer Events (f.ex. see [5]).

• Define the relationships between touch-pointer-mouse.

The group also expects to make proposals for potential future standards.

[1] <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CV2AXyrdPdGSRypAQcfGrgQVuWYi50EzTmVsMLWgRPM/>

[2] <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sasl1qYJV6agrDvGplEYlZznzc38U-TFN_3a67-nlSc/>

[3] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webevents/2013AprJun/0040.html>

[4] <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-HPlSIF7-ISY8TQHtuQ3IqDi-isZVI0Yzv5zwl90VU/>

[5] < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvdBn9Kvx22qdGRnRXNPb0ZBTUl3SEkwdUdtaW9pWWc&usp=sharing>

Short Name

Proposal: touchevents. The short name will be used for things like the mail list name (e.g. public-touchevents) and the group's home page e.g. (w3.org/community/touchevents/).